The Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined that another element of the Department of Effectiveness of the Government (DOGE) of the Trump Administration (DOGE), although the Federal Government is a violation of the Act on Remove.
This time, it is the financing that the Trump administration hid the beneficiaries of Head Start, an preschool financed by the federal government which serves children of low -income families. Federal subsidies help finance education, nutrition, health and social services for children.
The GAO reported on Wednesday at Congress that the Trump administration had violated the law when it had failed to properly spend the funds authorized by the Congress for the Program, which is managed by the Ministry of Health and Social Services. Between January and April this year, HHS only sent 65% of the funding it sent during the same period last year. This represents about $ 825 million less, funds that should have been released for Head Start programs across the country.
TPM journalist and friend, Bryce Covert, reported in May that Head Start programs across the country began to express their concern that their funding had not been disbursed. According to its coverage in the American perspective at the time:
The congress has completely funded in advance until the end of this exercise, but several signs indicate that the Trump administration retains at least some of the money programs on their account. According to an analysis of the office of the senator Patty Murray (D-WA), from April 15, the federal government had sent start-up programs at the top of more than $ 1 billion less than at the same time last year, representing an annualized decrease of 37%. The money continued to flow relatively normally until February, then in March and April, he started to fall from a cliff.
GAO is an independent agency integrated into the legislative power which examines federal spending, makes recommendations for cost savings in the congress and investigation of the implementation of the policy. (Ironically, it is often the independent agency which really does the work to identify funds of fraud and ill -spending that Doge said that it would do.) Now, the Gao spent the best half of the year to investigate the damage that Doge caused. He has more than two dozen cases focused on the DOGE cups which he studies as potential violations of the deduction law. He has rendered the decisions out of three so far, including the conclusions of Head Start. Others include the conclusion that the Trump administration illegally blocked funding for the construction of electric vehicle charging stations and for the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
All this is, of course, the simple additional verification of what has been clear for some time: that Elon Musk’s attack against the separation of powers – reducing federal expenses which had already been appropriate by the Congress – was, more than probably, a violation of federal law and, in various ways, the processes included in the Constitution. GAO’s conclusions are non -binding relationships with congresses that do not strengthen these concerns.
GAO noted that the Trump administration has failed to properly spend the funds during this three -month period could also violate the Head Start law.
“Once promulgated, credibility is a law like any other, and the president must implement it by ensuring that the appropriate funds are obliged and cautiously spent during their period of availability, unless the congress promulgates another law to provide,” said GAO in his report.
For his part, an HHS spokesperson told Washington Post that he did not agree with the conclusions of the Gao.
The controversy bove inches closer and closer to the life judge
Despite the numerous controversies surrounding his brief mandate as Hache of President Donald Trump at the Ministry of Justice, Emil Bove got closer to obtaining a lifetime seat on the third circuit court of appeal.
The Senate voted 50-48 Thursday to limit the debate on the appointment of Bove. Sense. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) broke with their caucus and voted against the progress of Bove alongside all the Democrats. Sense. Katie Britt (R-Al) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) did not vote.
The candidate supported by Trump was at the center of the allegations of a DOJ denunciator who said that Bove suggested that lawyers should need to challenge the judicial orders blocking plans to send Venezuelan migrants to a foreign prison.
Bove was also behind an effort to dismiss the MJ prosecutors who worked on the hundreds of the January 6 cases.
More than 900 former lawyers from the Ministry of Justice recently signed a letter postponing his appointment. Likewise, more than 75 former federal and state judges have signed a letter urging legislators to reject the “deeply inappropriate” appointment.
– Emine Yücel
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